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"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"
mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019
8 June 2019
Panel IV: Fascism, Populism, Authoritarianism, Introduction
Anson Rabinbach is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University and is a founding editor of New German Critique. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. He has been a fellow at the American Academy, Berlin (2005) a Fulbright, Senior Scholar at Smolny College, St. Petersburg (2004), a fellow at the Institute for 20th Century History in Jena (2009), and a fellow at the Simon-Dubnow Institut (Leipzig, 2014) at the IFK in Vienna (2013). His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe. Among his books are: The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927-1934 (The University of Chicago Press, 1981), The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (Basic Books,1991), In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (University of California Press, 1996). He has published a documentary history of Nazi Germany, The Third Reich Sourcebook, co-edited with Sander Gilman (The University of California Press. 2013). His most recent book, The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor (2018) appeared with Fordham University Press. His current research is a conceptual history of the twentieth century, entitled “Concepts that Came in from the Cold: Total War, Totalitarianism, Genocide.”
Panelists:
Andreas Huyssen, “Prophets of Deceit Redivivus”
Mary Nolan, “Is Right-Wing Populism Fascist? Reflections on Economics and Gender”
Enzo Traverso, “Conceptualizing Fascism: The Legacy of George L. Mosse”
Commentator/Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin
"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"
mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019
8 June 2019
Panel IV: Fascism, Populism, Authoritarianism, Introduction
Anson Rabinbach is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University and is a founding editor of New German Critique. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. He has been a fellow at the American Academy, Berlin (2005) a Fulbright, Senior Scholar at Smolny College, St. Petersburg (2004), a fellow at the Institute for 20th Century History in Jena (2009), and a fellow at the Simon-Dubnow Institut (Leipzig, 2014) at the IFK in Vienna (2013). His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe. Among his books are: The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927-1934 (The University of Chicago Press, 1981), The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (Basic Books,1991), In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (University of California Press, 1996). He has published a documentary history of Nazi Germany, The Third Reich Sourcebook, co-edited with Sander Gilman (The University of California Press. 2013). His most recent book, The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor (2018) appeared with Fordham University Press. His current research is a conceptual history of the twentieth century, entitled “Concepts that Came in from the Cold: Total War, Totalitarianism, Genocide.”
Panelists:
Andreas Huyssen, “Prophets of Deceit Redivivus”
Mary Nolan, “Is Right-Wing Populism Fascist? Reflections on Economics and Gender”
Enzo Traverso, “Conceptualizing Fascism: The Legacy of George L. Mosse”
Commentator/Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin
